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FPIs Pull Rs 44,166 Crore from Indian Equities in October: When Will the Tide Turn?

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The market has remained on a downward trajectory over the past two months, with persistently high crude oil prices and elevated US Treasury yields.

This is an Input cost / crude event. India imports most of its crude, so input costs pass through to margins downstream and to the rupee. Producers and consumers of the same input move in opposite directions.

Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.

  • This is a market-wide development — its reach goes beyond any single stock.